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Kyrie to Utah?

Saint Cy of JFC said:
It's insane how many young kids like Kyrie Irving. I never knew how popular he was until last summer when school was out and more MS/HS kids were at thy gym when I run pickup. They all have Kyrie shoes and shirts and love Kyrie.
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Where do you live? If Utah, just wait until DM plays for 1 year. Do the Jazz still hold Jr. Jazz camps? Wonder if DM would do those. He'd be wildly popular.
 
White Chocolate said:
Bleacher Report wrote about five teams that would make sense in a Kyrie trade. Utah was one of the teams. The deal was:

Kyrie Irving and Iman Shumpert for Ricky Rubio, Rodney Hood, Joe Johnson and 2019 1st-round pick (top-10 protected)

I would do that deal.
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Jazz would have a big three. They keep Donovan in this scenario.
If Donovan is as good as everyone thinks he is then we have gobert, mitchell, and irving.
Mitchell and ingles would be pesky bulldogs on the perimeter, favors and gobert down low locking down the paint, kyrie getting buckets and getting guys open looks (Averaged 6 assists last year). Our core would get younger and cheaper (at least for a few years) than it would have been with hayward.
Still have tons of depth at the 4 and 5. Still have Thabo and burks and exum at the wings for depth, still have exum, mitchell, neto for depth at point guard.

Team wouldn't be gutted in this scenario imo.
 
Saint Cy of JFC said:
It's insane how many young kids like Kyrie Irving. I never knew how popular he was until last summer when school was out and more MS/HS kids were at thy gym when I run pickup. They all have Kyrie shoes and shirts and love Kyrie.
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They all love that awful, contested 'clutch' three he sank in the final minute of game seven last year (the only shot that went in during an avalanche of bad ones)
 
Jack Strop said:
Where do you live? If Utah, just wait until DM plays for 1 year. Do the Jazz still hold Jr. Jazz camps? Wonder if DM would do those. He'd be wildly popular.
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I have Kyrie 3 shoes. They are beautiful.
 
8 said:
They all love that awful, contested 'clutch' three he sank in the final minute of game seven last year (the only shot that went in during an avalanche of bad ones)
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Just an fyi, in the last two years in the playoffs (as 23 and 24 year old) he averaged over 25 ppg shooting better than 47% from the field (damn good for a high volume guard), and over 40% from three (6 attempts per game)
So I would say he made plenty of shots.

Those are not just for the finals though, they are his numbers for the playoffs the last two years. I couldn't find anything on basketball reference that showed his finals only numbers.


Also (and this isn't in reference to your post 8) last year was his best year of his career. With him being 25 years old he might still be improving going forward. Played 72 games last year too. (I think some of the missed games were games of "rest")
 
Jack Strop said:
Would Cleveland wait until December? Because I don't think Rubio can be traded until then.

@Cy...I agree Love to Utah has always made the most sense.
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I have serious doubts about Irving even entertaining the idea of staying in Utah. He will be gone the first chance he gets.
 
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Stoked said:
I have serious doubts about Irving even entertaining the idea of staying in Utah. He will be gone the first chance he gets.
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Could probably say that about any player on another team of his caliber. (Other than lillard I guess)
So we should never try to get really good players from other teams I guess.
 
fishonjazz said:
What are you talking about? Who wouldn't be? I'm saying that I would be stoked if mitchell was a 4 time all star for the jazz by 25. You wouldn't?

Oh I see, you are saying kyrie wouldn't be a 4 time all star if he played in the west. I definitely think it's less likely but he still might be. No way to know for sure. It would depend on what team in the west he played for and how well he played on that team imo.
I think irvings name pops up when national media discusses the top point guards in the league. Not at the very top but I'm sure he would be in the discussion. (Irving made an all nba team after all. That includes both east and west players btw)
Lillard made multiple all star teams iirc and he doesn't play defense and is a chucker (a less efficient one) and his teams have not been that great.
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Lillard has yet to make the All star team.
 
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